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A friend is someone who

likes you.

It

can be a boy

It

can be a girl

or a cat
or a

dog

or even a white mouse.

So begins
book,

this

which,

enchanting

with

and

simplicity in text

little

beguiling
pictures,

demonstrates for small children

some

of the

many happy

sur-

prises just waiting to be discov-

ered in the world around them.

MARCOURT, BRACE

6.

750 Third Avenue,

.III

WORLD, INC.

New

ages

York. '7

A Friend

Is

Someone Who Likes You

JOAN WALSH ANGLUNI)

A
Friend
Is

Someone

Who
Likes

You

HARCOURT, BRACK & WORLD,

INC.,

NFW YORK

I9S" BY JOAN WALSH

All rights reserved.

So

ANGLUND

part of this book

may

be reproduced in

any form or by any mechanical means, including mimeograph and

tape recorder,

without

permission in writing from the publisher.

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOG CARD NUMBER: $8-86 24

PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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white mouse.

tree can be a different kind of friend.

It

doesn't talk to you, but you

likes

you, because

it

or,

you apples

gives

or pears ... or cherries

know

sometimes, a place to swing.

it

A brook can be

a friend in a special

way.

you with splashy gurgles.

It

talks to

It

cools your toes and lets you

quietly beside
like speaking.

it

sit

when you don't

feel

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It

a friend too.

sings soft songs to

when you
Sometimes

it

you

at night

are sleepy and feeling lonely.

calls to

you to

It

pushes you from behind

as

you walk and makes

play.

the leaves dance for you.

It

is

always with you

wherever you go,

and that's how you
it

likes you.

know

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Sometimes you don't know who

are your friends.

Sometimes they are there

fnit

all

the time,

you walk right past them

and don't notice

in a special

thai they like

way.

you

And then you think you don't have any

friends.

Then you must slop hurrying and rushing

so

fast

and

move very

slowly,

and look around carefully,

to see

someone who

in a special

or

dog

way

that wags

whenever you

smiles at you

arc near

or

a tree that lets

or

brook that

when you want

extra hard

its tail

you climb

lets

it

easily

you be quiet

to be quiet.

Sometimes you have

to find your friend.

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Some people have

lots

am\

lots ol Friends

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and some people have quite a few friends

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everyone
has

at

in

the

whole world

[east one friend,

Where

did you find yours?

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Someone Who

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words

and

pictures together

catching

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book.

for putting

Friend

You

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world of children's hooks. Together with

ume, Love
FeelingM

its

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will

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bring great pleas-

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their

companion

grown-up

young and
friends

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